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cloudy
and
pleasant
conditions.
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Low:
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WEDNESDAY,
MARCH
25,
1998
SOUTH
COUNTY
FINAL
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to
test
electronic
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had
said
he
was
mad
at
everybody
and
that
he
was
going
to
kill
them.
Nobody
believed
him.
'
CLASSMATE'S
RECOLLECTION
OF
13-YEAR-OLD
SUSPECT'S
THREATS
Natalie
Brooks,
12
Brittany
Varner,
11
Paige
Ann
Herring,
12
Shannon
Wright,
32
Stephanie
Johnson,
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who
buy
the
small
boxes
won't
have
to
dig
for
spare
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By
Matt
Reed
Palm
Beach
Post
Staff
Writer
Drivers
on
Florida's
Turnpike
could
cruise
past
toll
plazas
and
pay
lower
rates
if
they
buy
electronic
passes
that
will
be
tested
in
May
in
Boca
Raton.
Turnpike
officials
on
Tuesday
displayed
a
sample
SunPass,
a
slender
white
box
that
looks
like
an
electronic
garage-door
opener.
The
boxes
will
cost
$25
and
attach
to
the
inside
of
motorists'
windshields,
they
said.
Drivers
will
get
a
10
percent
discount
on
tolls
after
40
"transactions"
at
plazas.
Motorists
must
buy
a
Sun-Pass
to
qualify
for
lower
rates
ordered
by
the
legislature
last
year.
Residents
would
deposit
money
into
accounts
with
the
Florida
Department
of
Transportation.
The
computer-controlled
system
will
deduct
from
the
accounts
as
motorists
drive
through
special
lanes
at
turnpike
plazas.
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Factoring
the
discount
and
the
one-time
cost
of
the
pass
box,
fre-auent
turnoike
users
could
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DAUGHTRIDGEThe
Commercial-Appeal
Emergency
workers
carry
a
girl
from
an
ambulance
at
Westside
Middle
School
in
Jonesboro,
Ark.,
Tuesday.
Four
students
and
a
teacher
died
in
a
sniper
ambush.
?
even
after
about
10
months,
said
r
Evelio
Suarez,
operations
manager
'
I
for
the
SunPass
program.
Families
j
could
move
the
electronic
device
j
from
one
car
to
another.
j
The
passes
will
be
tested
in
Boca
;
;
Raton
and
northern
Broward
County
j
in
late
May,
and
drivers
from
Boynton
Beach
to
Miami
will
be
able
to
use
the
;
;
system
by
summer's
end,
officials
;
;
said.
I
;
Transportation
officials
will
set
up
1
a
toll-free
line
for
motorists
to
call
and
:
request
the
passes
once
the
program
I
'
starts.
,
,
In
two
or
three
years,
SunPass
will
i
be
installed
on
all
Florida
toll
roads
,
and
bridges,
Suarez
said.
Similar
I
programs
are
in
place
in
other
parts
of
MISSOURI
This
is
the
worst
thing
I
had
ever
seen'
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ARKANSAS
Little
Rock
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Q.
CL
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to
CO
to
5
"I
saw
my
best
friend
Natalie
Brooks
get
killed.
She
was
shot
in
the
head
twice,"
said
1
1-year-old
Amber
Vanoven.
"I
saw
my
friend
laying
down
and
in
all
this
blood,
and
I
just
started
running."
The
attack
was
the
third
multiple
killing
in
a
school
by
a
youth
under
the
age
of
16
in
the
last
six
months.
"I've
been
in
this
for
a
long
time,"
said
Sheriff
Dale
Haas
of
Craighead
County,
who
cried
as
he
recounted
the
shootings.
"This
is
the
worst
thing
I
had
ever
seen."
Please
see
SNIPERSiM
By
Rick
Bragg
Ihe
New
York
Times
JONESBORO,
Ark.
A
13-year-old
boy,
who
reportedly
vowed
to
kill
all
the
girls
who
had
broken
up
with
him,
and
his
11-year-old
cousin
opened
fire
on
students
outside
a
middle
school
Tuesday
morning,
killing
four
girls
and
one
teacher
and
wounding
10
other
people,
authorities
said.
Law-enforcement
officers
said
the
two
boys,
dressed
in
camouflage
clothing,
apparently
lay
in
wait
in
a
wooded
area
near
the
school
after
someone,
perhaps
a
third
person,
set
off
a
fire
alarm,
forcing
students
and
faculty
members
outside.
Dazed
students
described
how
dozens
of
seventh-
and
eighth-grade
students
filed
out
of
the
tan
one-story
school
building
at
12:45
p.m.
and
thought
they
heard
firecrackers.
But
as
the
students
started
to
fall
outside
Westside
Middle
School,
12-
and
13-year-olds
dove
for
cover
and
one
teacher
threw
herself
in
front
of
a
student
to
save
her.
Within
seconds,
several
students
lay
in
their
own
blood
on
the
school
grounds,
some
screaming,
some
unmoving.
CO
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LU
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LOUISIANA
ROB
BARGEStaff
Artist
the
country,
including
Illinois
and
New
York.
Lawmakers
ordered
a
10
percent
discount
for
South
Florida
residents
last
year
when
they
voted
to
use
toll
money
to
pay
off
bonds
for
new
roads
in
the
state.
Local
leaders
complained
that
South
Floridians,
who
use
the
turnpike
most,
would
bear
the
brunt
of
paying
for
roads
in
other
regions.
Inside
Clinton
acknowledges
'sins'
of
America
against
Africans
-
1
Eri
During
the
Cold
War,
America
was
so
concerned
with
the
Soviet
Union
that
it
dealt
with
African
countries
based
on
how
they
fit
in
the
superpower
struggle,
rather
than
on
more
humanitarian
criteria,
Clinton
said.;
"But
perhaps
the
worst
sin;
America
ever
committed
about
Africa
was
the
sin
of
neglect
and
ignorance,"
he
said.
"We
have
never
been
as
involved
with
you;
Please
see
AFRICA724
told
several
thousand
children
and
local
residents
in
this
rural
town
20
miles
from
the
capital,
Kampala.
"And
we
were
wrong
in
that."
Clinton's
statement
stopped
short
of
the
explicit
apology
for
past
wrongs
that
some
blacks
in
the
United
States
have
sought.
But
it
was
significant
in
that
this
was
the
president
addressing
this
topic
in
this
place,
and,
as
he
noted.
"The
United
States
has
not
always
done
right
by
Africa."
By
Elizabeth
Shogren
Los
Angeles
Times
MUKONO,
Uganda
Taking
on
a
repentant
tone
on
his
second
day
on
this
continent.
President
Clinton
said
Tuesday
that
slavery
was
"wrong"
and
admitted
to
other
"sins"
that
he
said
America
has
committed
against
Africa.
"Going
back
to
the
time
before
we
were
even
a
nation,
European
Americans
received
the
fruits
of
the
slave
trade,"
Clinton
All
aboard!
Space
tourism
capitalists'
next
big
trek
By
Steven
S.
Woo
Palm
Beach
Post
Washington
Bureau
WASHINGTON
Within
a
few
decades,
space
tourism
could
be
a
$20
billion
annual
business,
with
hundreds
of
thousands
of
people
riding
private
craft
into
orbit
and
staying
there
in
space
"hotels."
At
least
that's
what
NASA,
the
Marshall
Space
Flight
Center
and
the
private
Space
Transportation
Association
say
in
a
report
to
be
released
today.
But
to
make
this
vision
a
reality,
a
multibillion-dollar
public
and
private
research
program
should
start
soon,
,
the
report
says.
A
study
by
NASA
and
STA
found
that
public
interest
in
space
is
high,
and
suggested
that
tens
of
millions
of
Americans
would
be
interested
in
traveling
into
space
if
they
"could
do
,
so
with
reasonable
safety,
comfort,
reliability
and
at
an
acceptable
price."
The
report
said
a
"commercially
viable
general
public
space
travel
and
tourism
business
could
begin
to
be
created
over
the
next
decade
or
so."
This
could
grow
within
several
decades
to
a
business
worth
$10
billion
Fresh
water
leaves
a
bitter
taste
IVime
Treasure
Coast
fishing
spots
are
in
disastrous
shape
THE
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PRESS
Second
killer
executed
STARKE
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Police
officers
await
the
execution
of
Leo
Jones
at
the
Florida
State
Prison
early
Tuesday.
Jones
was
convicted
of
killing
a
Jacksonville
police
officer
in
1981.
His
execution
was
the
second
of
four
scheduled
over
nine
days.
STORY,
SA
PALM
BEACH
Weather.
'T4
INTERACTIVE
nes.
sports
clears
his
throat
"First
fish
of
the
day
and
it's
a
sick
one."
As
it
turned
out
the
sick
fish
was
the
only
fish
Gentile
caught
Tuesdav.
The
four-hour
trip
took
his
lS'-.-foot
boat
from
the
North
Fork
in
Fort
St
I.ucie.
south
under
the
Roosevelt
and
Evans
Crary
bridges
in
the
St
Lucie
River,
to
the
Crossroads
at
the
St
Lucie
Inlet
then
north
into
the
Indian
River.
"I'm
going
to
pretend
I've
been
on
vacation
for
a
couple
weeks,
and
I'm
just
coming
back,
checking
out
all
the
places
I
usually
take
my
clients."
Gentile
says.
"And
the
first
thing
I'm
seeing
is
what
isn
t
here."
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fishermen
on
the
bridges.
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fishermen
on
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Headi
Post
Staff
Wnter
CapL
Gregg
Gentile
eases
the
River
Roamer
toward
the
banks
near
Big
Bend,
one
of
his
favorite
fishing
holes
on
the
North
Fork
of
the
St.
Lucie
River.
A
few
casts
with
a
little
plastic
minnow
and
Gentile
reels
in
a
feisty
jack
bright
yellow
and
green,
twisting
and
wriggling.
"This
little
jack's
a
happy
little
guy.
and
I
don't
see
a
mark
..."
Gentile
stops
in
mid-sentence.
"He's
got
a
lesion
on
top
of
his
head.
Ixk
at
that."
Small
red
sores
border
the
slit
in
the
little
fish's
head.
Gentile
unhooks
the
jack
and
releases
it
"It's
like
a
kick
in
the
chest"
His
voice
wavers
and
he
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